Reports of Meetings. EAST LONDON ASSOCIATION OF SPIRITUALISTS. ON Tuesday evening, Nov. 16th, Mr. John Jones, of Enmore park, South Norwood, gave a lecture in connection with the East London Association of Spiritualists, at the Stepney Temperance Hall, Mile-end-road, E. It was the same lecture as the one given in Clerkenwell, and reported in the last number of THE SPIRITUALIST, but he stated a few additional facts. He said that once in his own family, he had had a prescription written out by spirit agency, which prescription was taken to a chemist, who pronounced it to be all right and made it up for the invalid accordingly. He stated as a curious fact, that neither Mr. nor Mrs. S. C. Hall could singly get spirit writing by the aid of the planchette, but when the former placed his hand over that of Mrs. S. C. Hall, the most exalted sentences were written out. The Bib lical narrative that an angel opened the doors of the prison where Peter lay, showed that in ancient times the spirits could He knew of a case where the spirits move solid objccts. had predicted beforehand the time and the details of a certain event, and the prophesy proved true. There was a large attendance at this lecture, numbers being unable to obtain admission. Mr. JAMES BURNS gave a lecture at the same place or Thursday, Nov. 25. the subject being “The Evidences of Spiritualism" Mr. S. E. Goss lectured last Tuesday at a meeting of the Association, on "The Harmonial Philosophy of Spiritualism." In highly poetical phraseology, he described some of the teachings of a large section of the American Spi ritualists, headed by Andrew Jackson Davis. The sub stance of the lecture was to the effect that Spiritualisn tcaches that it is a duty in every way to perfect the body mind, and reasoning faculties, and to remove all obstacles to such development. He said that one great obstacle is the accumulation by unjust laws of the wealth produced by labour, into the hands of those who labour not, so that the great bulk of the population live on earth in never-ending toil and suffering, while others live in idleness and selfishness upon the wealth produced by their labour. These privations have the effect also of causing the industrious classes to prey upon each other. This philosophy teaches man to remove such evils and to perfect his body ; also it teaches him to per fect his mind, more especially the reasoning faculties. It is a deadly foe to priestcraft of every kind—to men who employ reason to teach their followers that reason may not be trusted. His own preacher was reason, the flower of the spirit, and his temple the wide universe on which God has written His eternal laws. He said that the great reformers of all ages always met with opposition from those who had the bulk of the people under control, and use them to serve their own ends. The Preacher of the Sermon on the Mount was crucified be cause His doctrines were anti-Moses ; Martin Luther was pro nounced anti-Christ because he helped to free people some what from the power of the Roman Catholic Church, and similar denunciations were hurled by all sectarians at geology and astronomy, because they found no place in the universe for a hell of fire and brimstone, and proved that the world turned round, also that it was but one little world out of millions of others. Sectarianism, he said, teaches eternal punishment, which Spiritualism does not. Sectarianism teaches that wars come from God, whilst Spiritualism teaches that they came from man’s bad education and misdirection. Spiritualism teaches also that man and woman are equal, and that the one is at present unjustly placed in a worse position on earth than the other. Sectarianism hates philosophy and science, whilst Spiritualism receives these noble gifts of intelli gence with open arms. Spirits in prison are those who dare not think for themselves, and who are kept in subjection by a gloomy fear of the death, and of the world beyond. Spirit ualism removes all this, and proves that the art of commui cating with the higher world has not been lost, although penal laws werc passed in the early days of English history, to kill out such communication on the part of the general public In the course of the lecture the words “electricity” and "magnetism” were often misapplied to unknown spiritual forces. Mr. W. CRESSWELL proposed a vote of thanks to the lecturer and added that Spiritualism was gaining ground in East London, in evidence of which a quiet peaceable evening had just been passed, whereas a few years ago they were mobbed and interrupted at such gatherings. He said that the St. John’s Association of Spiritualists was an offshoot from the East London Association. Mr. LAMBERT seconded the vote of thanks, and the pro ceedings closed.