Reports of Meetings. [When reports of the speeches of spirits are printed in this Journal, non Spiritualists should understand that spirits out of the body are wise of foolish, truthful or untruthful, just the same as spirits in the body. More over, they are but individuals, so do not know everything. The statements of a spirit are but the assertions of an individual; but by comparing the state ments of many spirits, it may in time be possible to discover in what points they agree, and to sift out the unreliable communications. Many spirits cannot see each other, any more than we can see them, and as some of them are thus in different states of life, it does not follow that contradictory messages are therefore untruthful. Spirits are of different religions, conse sequently their teachings do not altogether agree; there is no more uniformity in the next world than in this one.] ON Thursday evening, December 9th, a social meeting of the St. John’s Association of Spiritualists was held in St. John’s Hall, Corporation-row, Clerkenwell, the proceedings beginning with tea, and ending with speeches. When the business of the evening began, Mr. W. Cresswell was voted into the chair. The CHAIRMAN said that it had been thought desirable to spend the rest of the evening in the public narration of the experience of each speaker on the subject of Spiritualism. Many years ago he had discarded an intimate friend because that friend took up the imposture of Spiritualism, and it was not till the winter of 1860-61 that he (the Chairman) saw an manifestations himself. After investigating the reality of the common table manifestations, he satisfied himself that the were true. He knew that much which is seen in Spiritualism taken separately, could be explained without assuming the in tervention of disembodied spirits, but considering the pheno mena as a whole, that spirits are at the bottom of them is certain. Since 1861 he had been a very active worker in the movement. Mr. J. S. STEELE, watchmaker, of 36, Great Sutton-street, Clerkenwell, E.C., said that he first saw the spiritual mani festations in the room in which he was speaking, and Messrs. Cresswell, Davis, and Blackwell were present. He thought all he then witnessed was contemptible rubbish, but he attended twice more, and, his curiosity being aroused, he joined the so ciety for the sake of obtaining regular admittance. After a time he discontinued his visits, and at last said to his wife, who had been a Spiritualist for some time, “ If you go to that place again I’II go to St. Luke’s madhouse and get one straight jacket for you and another for Davis.” (Laughter.) However, he attended once more, and the spirits selected him and ten other persons to sit at a dark séance. At that séance Mr. Davis was entranced, and repeated to him the dying words of his son. This son had died a year before he knew Mr. Davis, and he had never spoken to the latter on the sub ject. The words were, “Good bye, God bless you. You'll never forget me, will you?” Davis finished by saying, “Is there anybody here who remembers these words?” He (Mr. Steele) shouted “Yes, I do.” Davis replied, “I should think you do, father.”. His wife was not present at the séance. A short time afterwards, a medium, Miss Dixon, came to his house. He entered the parlour to speak to her, and she went off into a trance upon the sofa. He felt very uncomfortable to see a strange young woman apparently fainting away in his house, as he did not know how to bring her round, and was not used to that sort of thing. He thought to himself She rose from the sofa, “Here’s a pretty pickle I’m in !" bent one foot so that she walked on the edge of it, drew up one arm into a cramped position, and limped in a peculiar way across the room. He said, “Why, that’s my mother." The medium, who never knew his mother, replied, “ Yes, my boy, I should think it is.” His mother had died many years before, and she was much afflicted with paralysis. Another spirit, purporting to be his son, spoke to him through Miss Dixon, and said, “ Father, you once made me an earthly pro mise.” He replied,“Yes, for shortly before his son died the boy asked him to always wear a ring on his finger in remem brance of him, with the date of his birth, death, and burial engraved upon it. He (Mr. Steele) had not kept the promise and had not told his wife about it, because he knew that if he did she would always be pressing him to wear the ring. His son through the medium, continued, “ Will you now make me a spiritual promise?”. He replied, “ Yes, but will you tell me what was to be inside the ring?”. The answer was, “Do you want me to tell you more than the three dates?” “No, he said, “I am satisfied.” And he was satisfied, for no being on earth knew anything about the private conversation between him and his son about the ring. Mr. AVERY, an American, said that in the August of 1861 he was told through a trance medium that his little daughter who was very ill, was suffering from a bad rupture, and would soon enter the spirit world, although a short time before the change she would appear to be much better. In October he received, through a drawing medium, an accurate likeness of his grandfather, who had then been in the spirit world for sixty years. The medium was a stranger to him, and lived 500 miles from the locality where his grandfather spent his life while on earth. The portrait was recognised by all who once knew his grandfather. About this time his daughter got worse again. She was very sick, and she told him that she would come back to him sometimes from the spirit world if she could. Through his own mediumship he was told several days in advance that she would pass away on one particular Sunday, a little after twelve o’clock. Everything took place as predicted. In the following December he went to New York, and while in his sister’s house a woman, a medium, en tered in the trance state, and he heard his child’s voice saying, "Where’s Pa?” She added, "I’m Lavinia. Pa! Didn’t I tell you I’d come back again?”. She chatted with him for some time, told him that "he was going crazy about Spiritual ism,” and that in a short time she would find out a way of convincing her mother through a medium. She finished by saying, “ Oh, l’m so sick, I can’t stay longer.”. She then left, and the medium appeared to be very unwell, though other