pleased to have met each other, and had never parted since. This was all very peculiar, and they told him that the lady was his “ spiritual affinity.” Her name was Rose. His own name was Timothy. His hearers must excuse his jumbling material and spiritual things together. Everybody there was very happy and comfortable, and everybody helped everybody else, and it is astonishing what a lot of labour and unhappines that plan saved. They followed whatever pursuits they liked best. In the garden was a fountain of what his listeners would call “water,” but which the spirits call “magnetism." They were in the habit of sitting near it to study, and it had a very soothing influence. The spirits among whom he dwelt were not entirely free from sorrows. They had cares and troubles about friends left behind on earth, as well as about other matters. One society in his sphere was fond of travel ling. Its members sometimes made excursions, not onl throughout their spirit land, but to some of the planets seen from the earth. He once travelled with some members of this society for two years, reckoning by earthly time. They visited the earth, and when he got home again it was astonish ing what a lot of knowledge he had gained, how strongly he felt what a little mite in creation he was, and how little he knew. He found that he did not understand himself, so what right had he to judge other people ? He felt that he was very selfish, and that God had been very good to give him a much better place to live in than he deserved, so he tried to make himself better, and his father took him to a teacher, full of knowledge and wisdom, who helped him. Once he could only see a little good in the universe, and a great deal of evil, but now he could see good in everything, because it comes from the source of all good. He should like everybody to see these things the same as he saw them, and a great deal better. He said that his name was Timothy Martin ; in earth-life he was a grocer’s assistant in Hull, and he entered the spirit world about twenty-three years ago. Another spirit then took possession of the medium, and said that he was “only a poor nigger,” with no soul, born to put dollars in the pocket of his master, who often beat him, and treated him very badly. He hated that master, but the first thing his teachers did in the next world was to send him to do good to the man, and he didn’t at all like the job, but he did it, and felt all the better and happier afterwards. That master is now in the spirit world too, with nobody to attend upon him, and he goes about “cussing” and swearing, and longing to be back once more in his earthly body. The nigger was much the happiest man of the two. The question was asked, “ Was his spirit body black in colour?” and he replied, “ No. The black man has a white soul, so when he dies he is turned inside out.” (Laughter.) The next influence purported to be the spirit of an Indian, who said, “ Brothers and sisters, I cannot say much through this medium to-night, but I'll do the best I can. I am glad to see that many love the red man better than they used to do. Things are changing here, where all is endless progression, and ere many moons have passed away his whole race will be above in the happy land, where all must come. Clear you minds of all that is wrong, for that is the only thing to carry you happily onwards to the land of light. Next came the guardian spirit, who gives the name of Tien Sien Tie, and he said, “Good evening, friends. How strange it is that man has overlooked one fact belonging to his nature. If he studied the evidence, he would find that his religion is but the highest result of individual expressions of opinion and knowledge. Certain minds see the same object in the same light, and, forming a nucleus, they think that they have all truth. So a religion is formed. They overlook the fact that others have not the same religion. But men afterwards spring up who see principles more clearly, and form the nucleus of a higher religion ; at once a war begins between the higher and the lower, and the followers of the latter say, They would draw us from the truth, and from our ancient allegiance.' This is true, not only in matters of religion, but in all things appertaining to your daily life ; it is true of the vices and the virtues, of beauty and ugliness ; it is the same in all things. What is vice and virtue to you, is your highest know ledge of your individual self, and your perception of the things around you. When things do not harmonise with your interior light, you call that 'evil.' Then how charitable we ought to be to our brothers and sisters around us. It shows us that where another sins, he is but acting in accordance with the light he has got. A man who has passed through life clad in robes of light, and wisdom, and love, has only done what his brother has done—acted up to his light. That poor one is just beginning his earthly development, and the interior mind is only just beginning to get the proper control of its bodily covering ; it gets experience, it builds by the aid of its mis takes, and plaits a grand cable of evidence harmonious in its interweavings. Be charitable then, and bear with all around you. Great changes in a few months will sweep over your earth, and people will see the falsity of creedal opinions, which are but the expression of individual ideas. It would be a good plan for a few of the wisest men, of all nations, to meet together to consider their religions, and to select the one which can be supported by the largest amount of evidence." A visitor said, “ But some people do wrong, and know that they are doing wrong." The Chinese philosopher replied, that when a man does a thing knowing that he is doing wrong, he breaks a law, and the law punishes him; but if his perceptions were fully awakened, he would not do wrong. There is nothing but universal law everywhere, although the laws may be un written, and every law carries with it its own punishment for those who break it. For instance, if a man break the laws which govern the health of his physical frame, say, by eating too much, the breaking of the law also inflicts the penalty. In answer to the question of how many spiritual spheres there are, he said that each spirit will give different state ments according to the states or conditions of spirit life through which he has passed. There is no defined separation between them, but the states of spirit life merge into one another like the colours of the solar spectrum. In answer to a question as to how spirit hands and voices are produced at circles, he said that the hands are formed sometimes by the spirits covering their own hands with ema nations from the medium, and sometimes by their making separate hands out of the same emanations by the aid of their knowledge of the laws of chemistry. The voices are produced in several ways. Sometimes the spirits make a tube out of the emanations from the medium, and some of those who are experienced at the work will even form a throat. In answer to the question whether the spirits, who produce physical manifestations, are of a lower order than the others, he said that generally it is so, though not always, so a safe rule cannot be laid down. The lower spirits live upon the earth, and are more earthy in their natures and atmospheres than the higher ones, so, as a general rule, with exceptions they have more power over common matter.