was still wandering about this planet, and wanted very much to get away from it ; he had been taken in once, and would not believe anything in future till he saw it. When other spirits told him about the “ spheres,” he should put it down that they were “ gammoning” him. He died, he ex pected to go to heaven and play a harp eternally, and when he found he had not to do so, his being the nature of an india rubber ball, he bounded back from the wall of facts, into the valley of ignorance. There were plenty to teach him, who wanted him to become as a little child, to learn, and to fit himself for a higher life ; but when a person has got old in particular ideas, it takes long to get right again ; and it was this artificial nature which he had to work off. On earth he was in the habit, at present, of looking about for a medium who might be either a duke or a beggar, for he had his choice and he could partake of all the pleasures of the medium, see all that he saw, get the spirit portions of the food he ate, and could enjoy himself generally. All his education and belief in life had been superficial, and did not appeal to the inner man; the body and the clothes believed it, but not the soul within. Now he went to church sometimes, and when he saw the minister, he felt inclined to sit on him and extinguish him knowing that half the congregation would be very likely to take the same road that he had taken himself, and it made him feel very nasty towards the ministers. The worst of it was, that many of the ministers know about Spiritualism, and attend séances, but when they get back in the pulpit they are “mum ;“ they get wheat for themselves, and deal out fire and brimstone to their flocks. To return to himself—Wasn’t he a beautiful plant out of the garden of theology? (Laughter.) The worst of it was, he had not been allowed to use his reason ; he was not surrounded on earth by the right con ditions, so the wrong flower had been blown. However, he was getting better, and went among benevolent people through whom he was gaining knowledge. What was your name, address, and occupation? That is too hard upon me. I would not have said so much, if I had known you were going to ask that. I am not going to tell you. After some pressing, he yielded a little to the ladies, and said his name was Michael Clarke ; he had been a baker, but would not give his address. Why don’t you go to the higher spirits to gain knowledge? If you were fond of chemistry, you would not go to a linen draper to be taught. It is no use your going to the spirit world to learn what ought to have been learnt in the body in this world ; you cannot rise to a certain spiritual level, until you have worked up to it ; you cannot understand the higher till you apprehend the lower. TIEN SIEN TIE, the guardian spirit of the medium, then came as usual and said—Good evening, friends. You have seen this evening two opposing types of the development of the mind. Such an exhibition should carry with it a lesson  a lesson which I will endeavour to point to your understand ings. There are many well-disposed honest minds that would have welcomed with open heart and hand our sister who con trolled the medium first, but who would have said to our brother who came next—“ You have a deal to learn. You had Now, better learn manners before you come here again." considering all the causes that act around individuals upon this planet, how charitable we ought to be. Our brother was placed in conditions not suitable for his spiritual faculty, and he had a superficial mentality ; the germs of spiritual truth are not developed. He was born of parents who of themselves had had no education in earthly things, and who by their occupation strove hard to sustain their existence, so rose not above the level of their wants. This was the first cause of the lack of development. The mind of the child therefore is not developed and enabled to bring itself to earth’s literature it cannot read, its chance of gaining knowledge from that source is closed. There are other sources than books, but the social status of the family still interferes. There is the school for daily instruetion, but the social condition of the parent makes it a necessity that as soon as the child can carry a mes sage or work with its hands, the child must work to sustain itself. Yes, but we have another chance ; there is the Sabbath school. Still carrying with us the social status of the family the child is opposed to religious teaching and rebels against the Sabbath-school ; it is repugnant to the mind of the child and often more so to the minds of the parents. There are good folks who go about, and would instruct these waifs and strays of society, and make them good and useful. Yes, they instruct the child in matters beyond its comprehension; they try to force the mind of the child into blossom before its time, so the child feels a repulsion and will not listen. The spiri tual things lie dormant within the mind ; it sees nothing be yond its immediate wants and necessities ; and it would say of the future—“ When the future comes that will be time enough to attend to it ; I must attend to the present, else I starve." That condition is carried up through many grades of society. If right conditions are brought to bear upon an organisation, it is improved and purified, and the mind can improve itself and ascend to the limits of our system. But let the mind be of the lowest development, it will one day be greater than we at present believe to be possible. You should all love justice and wisdom for they are the attributes of the Deity. I am ready to answer any questions. How is it that though the two spirits were on earth both surrounded by the same hard conditions, one is now so much in advance of the other? Because our sister had naturally a higher spiritual nature and shook off many of the influemces of unfavourable sur roundings. Is the spirit world objective or subjective? The spirit world is a real objective world, because man physically is the ultimate of all the developments of matter. Man contains within himself the elemental life of all forms and substances ; be may be compared to a “mill” grinding down these particles into a spirit body ; when the change comes, these particles for the most part escape upwards to form the free spirit body, but a portion of these particles remains in the earthly form, which is placed in the ground. Chemical action dissolves the remains, but the refined ma terial particles (not quite so fine as those which composed the spirit body) then rise from the ground, and they are too re fined to remain in the atmosphere of the earth. Each atom thus released, is itself an atom of a particular elemental life. The stream which thus rises from your planets is immense for you know how very many bodies are daily placed in the ground. Floating upwards, all these particles find their level they naturally unite according to their elemental life, and form the strata of an objective world. The flower particles are liberated, the tree particles are liberated, and they are prone to take the same forms as before, but their elemental life is then of a higher grade, and a further development or the vegetable kingdom takes place. There is nothing but external progression for the ultimates of matter.