THE BEST WAY TO SPREAD SPIRITUALISM. SIR.—I hail with satisfaction the publication of a periodical like THE SPIRITUALIST, and I trust that its bi-monthly issue will be continued. I presume that it is the desire of all true Spiritualists to spread a knowledge of the things they themselves understand but (excuse me for saying so), I fancy that most of them do not take the best means to extend their faith, and others are very uncharitable if scepticism is strongly exhibited. Allow me to make a remark or two on these points. In the first place, I do not think that Spiritualism will rapidly grow until a great opposing power—the metropolitan and provincial press of this country—has been won over to admit its miracles. Ten newspaper editors can do more to extend a knowledge of spiritual truths than ten thousand less influential people. Nothing succeeds now-a-days unless the press has smiled upon it. A new entertainment, a new book, a new pill, with out the aid of the press, seldom takes. There are hundreds of thousands in this country who place implicit reliance on their weekly or daily newspaper, and accept its dictum almost for gospel. I would advise Spiritualists on all occasions to en deavour to secure the support of “ the fourth estate.” But, it may be asked, how is this support to be obtained. I would reply—in this manner. Whenever a trustworthy and good medium, like Mr. Home, visits the provinces, let a special in vitation—if necessary, a personally-solicited one—be given to the local editors to attend at the séances, and let some mutual friend make it his duty to prevail on the editor (not the mere reporter) to be present. I was reading the interesting account of the recent seances at the house of Mr. Beattie, at Clifton and I thought what an oversight it was not to have invited the conductors of all the Bristol papers to be present. The would have narrated their experiences to the world, and must have confessed, in doing so, their inability to comprehend or explain away the phenomena, and the result would have been that a discussion would have croppod up in which thousands would have been interested. I think I am speaking the truth when I say that nine out of every ten people you meet, and who judge Mr. Home from the reports which appeared of him in the Home v. Lyon case, set him down to be a “ humbug," and all Spiritualists, as a rule, are classed by unbelievers in the same interesting category. We should endeavour, I think, to remove this incorrect impression, not because we are individually injured by it, but because it is an obstacle to the advancement of our beautiful science. There is a great disposition on the part of many to convert medical men, but I think it is a sheer waste of precious time to dally too much with these gentlemen. They always have such grand theories—such hair-splitting and confusing explanations of what they have observed, and they usually only make matters worse. Besides an “ M.D.” if he does confess that the physical and mental phenomena of Spiritualism arise from an unseen intelligence, has but a very small influence over public opinion, and is generally afraid to utter forth the conclusions he has been compelled to arrive at. The conversion of a pro fessional literary man, however, is a different thing. He sees in broad daylight inert matter move without visible help—he receives strange communications which only the so-called dead could communicate, and fairly non-plussed he goes straight away and publishes to the world those things, confessing his inability to account for them, but declaring them to be nevertheless facts. Suppose that Tyndall, Lubbock, Huxley, and Darwin (with Professor Pepper thrown in), were all read; to admit that the facts of Spiritualism are facts, that would be of far less importance than if the editors of the Saturday Review, the Spectator, the Pall Mall Gazette, and the Times were to depose to the same thing. Spiritualists should not be hard on those who are sceptical. It requires a great amount of credibility to accept many of the statements which appear in the spiritual publications.