spirits soon brought her round again.* The following summer his wife went to Philadelphia, and said she was going to see some clairvoyance, “ because that’s not Spiritualism, you know.” (Laughter.) She went, and received more than she expected. When she entered the room, the clairvoyant walked up to her and said, “ Mother ! mother !” and the spirit of her child forthwith told her the whole history of her life, as well as many things which occurred before she was born, and which were known to nobody but the listener. From that time forth his wife never said another word about the foolish ness of Spiritualism. “ It is one thing,” said the speaker, “to get evidence like this, and another thing to obtain the pure love which belongs to the spirit world, and then act it out in daily life. God is love, and to be true Spiritualists, you must love everybody and everything. When you do that, heaven is within you, and it is yours.” (Applause.) Mr. J. DAVIS said that he was an unlettered man, that he once thoroughly disliked Spiritualism, though his prejudices were overruled by a friend who induced him to go and see “the jugglery ” at the house of Mr. Blackwell in Bunhill-row. Many of the persons present on that occasion he saw among the listeners before him. He saw the table moving about, and said, with a laugh, “ Why, anybody can do that.”. He said to his friend,“ Let’s put our hands on this table, and see whether it will move for us.” It was a heavy four-legged table, with coffee cups on it, and directly their four hands touched it, it began to move. He turned red, and said to his friend, “ You did that.” “No, I didn’t,” said the friend, “ you did it, and they began to quarrel. He said, “ Well, let’s try again, and you be honest this time." “I was before,” said the friend. “No you wasn’t,” was the answer, and the quarrel was re sumed. However, they tried again, and not only did the table move, but another small table, with nobody near it quietly walked by itself, in three strides, several feet along the floor up to him (Mr. Davis). He jumped up and laid hold of the table, which he examined for strings and wires, but could find nothing. He did not follow up the subject for some months afterwards, but he was very much perplexed, and, at last, he joined an experimental circle of six persons who re solved to try for themselves, and to investigate Spiritualism thoroughly. They obtained the manifestations, they searched the Bible to discover its connection with the subject, and they found out that both taught that men should love God with all their hearts and minds, and love their neighbour as them selves ; that they need not care for this, that, or the other "ism,” but should go about doing good everywhere. A few weeks after the formation of the circle the spirits told him that they were going to make him a trance medium ; he re plied that "he should not like to be entranced except by some relation who would not hurt him.” However, he was en tranced by not a very high influence, and “ a pretty figure he cut," for he frightened everybody in the room ; he was rather ill afterwards from the physical effects. Afterwards partial entrancement came on at times, but he had no confidence in his mediumship, and thought it was something springing from his own brain or physical body, and not from spirits. One night, at a circle, he had this thought in his mind, and a writing medium present wrote out very swiftly, “ You have been doubting your own entrancement ; don’t do it again, on it will be to your own destruction.” From that time his doubts about the reality of the power were gradually re moved, and he had found his mediumship to be a great bless ing—a source of happiness, quietness, and ease of mind—a divine influence springing from the love of the Almighty God. The CHAIRMAN said that he was one of the circle of six persons mentioned by Mr. Davis. The spirits who came to that circle professed the Christian religion, and gently lec tured the members when they did not act up to its principles ; once they spoke to Mr. Davis about his not having spent a Sunday in a proper way. One day Davis asked them for an evening off, when he did not want to attend circle, and they told him he might go; but they let the other members know that they would bring him that evening as usual. While the circle was sitting they heard a noise, saw the handle of the door turn, saw the door open, and saw Mr. Davis just mount ing the top stair, which was about six feet from the door Davis was in an entranced state, and had been walked by the spirits in that condition all the way from Lincoln’s-inn-fields to Bunhill-row. Those who witnessed his entrance into the room have no reason to doubt that, in ancient times, spirits could open prison doors. Mr. WOOLNOUGH said that he first heard of Spiritualism in the adjoining coffee-house, and he asked Mr. Davis, “ When does the performance come off?" He indignantly replied that it was “no performance,” and brought him into the room ; but the spirits turned him and others out again, saying that their presence interfered. During the short time he was in the room he saw nothing very striking, except that one of the legs of a four-legged table rose off the floor, whilst the other three stood firm, the table appearing to bend in the middle ; this perplexed him a little, as he could not see how it could be done. He thought it peculiar, and followed up the subject for twelve months. They had pipes and coffee at the circles on Sunday; the spirits said nothing about this habit at first; they did not knock their pipes out of their mouths but slowly and gently, as is ever their way, they spoke to them of the impropriety, and induced them to break off the custom. One evening, at Mr. Cresswell’s, an aunt of his signalled through the table. This aunt died before he was born, and he (Mr. Woolnough) did not know that such a person had ever lived, neither did his friends at home know of her; but after searching for the particulars in a book, the found out that what was said at the circle was quite true. He had had eight years experience of the sayings and doings of his spirit friends, and he had always found that when there was a quarrel between members of the circle they never took any part in it, and when they rebuked anybody, it was always done gently and mildly ; they are good guides, and set a good example. When entrancement comes on slowly it is accom panied by a feeling of intense happiness and pleasure, and if death resembled entrancement, death would have no terrors for him. When the entrancement comes suddenly, for the instant the feeling is as if the head werc dashed in, and is not pleasant. When he first saw Mr. Blackwell, the medium, he thought he looked very much like a conjuror ; and, as for Mr Davis, he thought him stupid; but having now become a medium himself, his views were altered. The CHAIRMAN said that he was very pleased to see Mr Shorter present, as he had not attended one of their meetings for a very long time previously, and he was sure that every body present would like to hear a few words from him.