WHAT IS THE USE OF SPIRITUALISM? Strange to say there are people who can ask what is the use of communication with friends and relatives, who have passed the great barrier of the grave. One use of Spiritualism is, that all Spiritualists who lead moderately good lives, are found to gradually lose the fear of death. Spirits through the agency of suitable media have much power in the healing of diseases, and the removal of deformities, though such power is far from absolute. The following is a narrative, published in Daybreak, of some of the powers exercised through Mr. Nowton, the best healing medium in the United States; he is expected to visit England in the course of the year 1870. The following ex ample from a very boundless field of choice, is enough for the present on the subject of the uses of Spiritualism: Friday, May 22, of the present year (1868) will for ever remain one of the most memorable days of my life It was on that day, when the sun was shining brightly and bathing the world with its light and heat, that arrived at Newport, Rhode Islaud, and first came under the healing powers of Dr. J. A. Newton. I had heard of him through The Spiritual Magazine, Mr. William Howitt, and Mr. Coleman, and was assured that if I placed myself in his hands I should be speedily and radically cured of the neuralgic affection in my head, for which I had been suffering for eleven years. It was not until I had become a little more familiar with some of the facts and phenomena of modern Spiritualism that I felt a quiet faith in the power of Dr. Newton to remove my disease. Having once attained to that state of mind, and becoming satisfied that it was my duty to cross the Atlantic in search of health, I made arrange ments for doing so, and left Liverpool for New York on Saturday, May 9, arriving at the latter place on Tuesday evening, the 19th.* The moment Dr. New ton and I met, I found in his face and simple kindly manner a human image of the outside sunshine, and but few words had been spoken when I was convinced that the errand upon which I had come would be ful filled. I was about to give him the history in detail of my affliction when he stopped me by saying, That after I had been cured he would be very glad to listen to anything I might wish to say, but that the cure itselt was the first matter to be attended to.' He then poured a large quantity of very hot water upon my head while I was leaning it over a basin into which the water fell. After my head had been dried with a coarse towel, I was made to sit upon a moveable seat, similar to a music-stool, the doctor standing behind me, and placing my head against his chest with his hands crossed upon my forehead. He then moved my head in various directions until all at once a clicking noise was heard at the top of my spine. The doctor immediately cried out, 'That noise is the sign that you will be cured; the dis turbance of the nerve current has been removed. He then faced me, and lifting both his hands towards heaven, he looked me hard in the face, saying, 'Look at me. In the name of God our Heavenly Father, and of the Lord Jesus Christ the Great Healer, I bid this disease depart from this dear suffering brother and uever more afflict him. It is gone—it is gone—it is gone for ever, my brother; you are cured; rise up on your feet and be cured.' At that instant I felt a strong current of new life flowing into and through every part of my body, and I was conscious that I had entered upon an altogether new phase of existence. From that day to the present hour, July 13, I have been entirely free from my pain, and have felt as well, I should think as it is possible for any human being to feel. Physically speaking, I am a new creature; old things have passed away and all things have become new. Of course it is not for me to say absolutely that the cure will be per manent, but, if I may judge from my present expe rience, I see no reason why it should not be so Wonderful as my case is, it is only one of thousands, so far as Dr. Newton is concerned. He has cured almost, every form of disease, and removed almost every kind of suffering. In fact, he appears to have done every thing but raise the dead. And yet even he does not cure all cases, and this failure enables him to keep alive the consciousness that it is not he who cures, but God who works in and through him. He tells me that he has cured something like a quarter of a million of people. * * * * Most of his cures are done without fee or reward. In my own case he steadily refused to take a single dollar, and I saw him act in like manner towards several others. During my stay I witnessed several instances of his healing power; some of them being so manifest as to defy all attempts at explaining them away. On the very morning that my own cure was effected, I witnessed his cure of a paralytic who for three years had been unable to walk without the aid of crutches, and even then, only in a partial degree. This woman was brought by lier parents to Newport, and, in less than five minutes from the time when she came under Dr. Newton’s hands, she got up from the couch on which she had becn laid, and walked away up the street and back again, a full mile, and afterwards walked and ran and jumped and danced, as so many signs that her cure was a complete one. I also saw him cure a young man who had a withered hand. Indeed, might have seen day by day, and hour by hour, ex amples of this healing power had I chosen to have done so. Every now and again, there are trains from Boston and Providence freighted with the lame, the halt, the blind, and the diseased, sometimes to the number of 500 or 600. These come to Newport, and a large majo rity of them are sent away perfectly cured. In one part of Dr. Newton’s house there is a room of considerable size, fun of crutches, sticks, spectacles, eye-shades, bandages, and other memorials of disease and sickness which have been left behind by patients as so many signs and trophies of their cure.