of man is finite, and no number of finite movements will reach the infinite. It is a fact capable of mathematical de monstration that two lines may continually approach each other, yet never meet ; also, in the attempt to divide the number ten by three, on the decimal principle, one may keep on carrying figures until the whole universe is filled with them, yet never get to the end. No aggregation of finites can make up infinity. A man should never bow down in sackcloth and ashes before his Creator, but stand up in the glory of his manhood, as a being destined for eternal pro gression in the spheres. Spiritualism does not teach that God is a tyrant and angry with man. He would tell them some of his experiences among the North American Indians, who have many very good healing mediums among their tribes. About two years ago, the American Congress appointed a committee to meet the Indian tribes at the foot of the Rocky Mountains, to make peace treaties. The committee consisted of General Sherman, General Sheridan, General Taylor, Colonel S. F. Tappan, and others. He (Mr. Peebles) was invited to accompany them, and he did so, in consequence of which he spent nearly two months among the Indians, and learnt much about their habits and religious views. Some one thousand Indians met in council, drawn up in half-moons, near the confluence of the rivers North and South Platte ; the discussion then began and old grievances were brought up. General Sherman, a kind-hearted man, but shrewd withal, put some question about one point in which the Indians had broken a former treaty, and these questions rather puzzled the chief speaker on the other side, who was known to the whites as “Old Spotted-tail." Being puzzled he refused to give an im mediate answer, and summoned to his side a young Indian, who directly afterwards ran away, and for nearly one hour and a-half from that time, not a single word would the old Indian chief, or any subordinate chief, lisp, but when the young man came back, old Spotted-tail made a most eloquent speech. He (Mr. Peebles) afterwards ascertained that nine days before the council met, a celebrated medicine man among the Indians had begun to prepare himself to hold converse with the Great Spirit, and to give advice to the tribes. By being calm, perspiring, and taking little food, he became passive and negative enough to enter the clairvoyant state, and thus the advice was given. There was not a single Indian youth to be seen in all that council, and on inquiry he was told that three days before it began, orders had been issued that all young Indians should absent themselves from the camp, be cause the chiefs did not wish them to become contaminated by the vices of the Christian whites. General Sherman has very good impressional powers. General Harney also, had told him (Mr. Peebles) that his life had once been saved by a dream. General Harney is now a dignified old man, about seventy years of age, and he said that about forty years ago he was engaged in the war with the Florida Indians. One night, at about eleven o’clock, he sent one part of his army to attack the Indians, but the latter discovered the movement too soon, and surrounded their op ponents, who were thereby placed in great danger. Harney started to the rescue, and at break of day, found himself and his followers in a valley, and in great danger. He felt a drowsiness suddenly come over and overpower him, so that he dropped to the ground, and dreamt that he was surrounded by the enemy, with only one possible way of escape, through a deep gorge. He saw the rocks and the gorge distinctly, anc thought that he and his followers entered the gorge, and covered themselves with black mud, so that at a distance they looked like negroes, and in this disguise escaped. The negroes were friendly with the Indians. He then awoke, and not far off saw the entrance to the very same gorge he had seen in his dream. They found a pool lined with black mud, they covered themselves with the mud, and escaped, because in the distance they were taken by the Indians for negroes. Spiritualism, he said, is not Sectarian; it must never be allowed to crystallize into a sect. Institutions do not grow, but souls do. Creeds to thinking men are as shrouds and coffins. Spiritualism is a phenomenon and a philosophy—a science and a religion. It needs no handle—requires no prefix -to make it palatable. Policy, not principle, resorts to ex pedients. There could be no term more significant and far reaching than Spiritualism, because spirit alone is substantial, permanent, eternal. “It is the Spirit that giveth life,” wrote the ancient apostle. America, with its estimated eleven millions of Spiritualists, has Bible Spiritualism, Christian Spiritualism, Eclectic Spiri tualism, Harmonial Spiritualism, and Spiritualism unadorned by adjective or epithet. Those who affirm Spiritualism squarely, and relish the food the truth affords, constitute about nine hundred and ninety-nine of every one thousand in the United States. In England you have Christian Spiritualism, scientific Spiritualism, and plain natural Spiritualism with no embellishments. France gives us radical Spiritualism and re incarnation Spiritualism. Several of these definitions are dis tinctions without differences, and forcibly exhibit the law of diversity in unity. But differ as we may in our theories, when pushed into the mythic realm of speculative theology our facts are one. On this common ground, then this broad platform of tolerance and good will, let us stand a banded brotherhood of true souls—stand like polished shafts of light and truth in the Temple of the Eternal. As a Spiritualist striving to conserve the good found in all religions, past and present, seeking constantly to lead a holier life, looking trustingly for higher unfoldings of truth and fresher developments in the fields of science, I extend the fraternal hand of fellowship to each and all, and in this hand buds and blossoms the olive-branch of peace. “By this,” said Jesus, “shall all men know that ye are My dis What matters ciples if ye have love one for another." nationality, clime, or dogma to God, who beneficently "sendeth rain upon the just and the unjust?”. What cared the Good Shepherd of Judea about the colour or names of the sheep constituting the flock?” “Other sheep I have, said He, “which are not of this fold, them also I must bring, and there shall be one fold and one shepherd.” What will it be to angels when the curtain of immortality is uplifted and you stand in the presence of those glorified Hosts? The question will not be asked, Were you a Christian Spiritualist, a radical Spiritualist, or a re-incarnation Spiritualist ; but did you live up to the light you had received as soul-convictions? Were the heart’s affections right and the life-purposes pure? Did you feed the hungry, clothe the naked, provide for the orphan, sympathise with the sorrowing ; or scripturally expressed, did you “go about doing good?”. These determine the immediate conditions, the heavens and the hells of the future existence. Progress pertains to all worlds. Angels are the teachers of spirits, and spirits come to instruct and spiritually enlighten mortals. The more philosophical of the Swedenborgians be lieve in the “ continual mitigation of the hells ;” while many nominally orthodox clergymen, rejecting the doctrine of eter-