No physiologist can explain the added palpitation of the heart under the stimulus of divine emotion; no physiologist can explain the desperation which comes from grief and the gradual dying away of the ties of life. If by such subtle processes the physical form of man is affected here under the dominion of the senses by his conscious intelligence and his emotion, why may not every force in the universe be moved and controlled by the dominant influence of love, and like the flow of the tides of the ocean, fill up all the narrow bayous, all the lowland streams, with its wonderful overflow from the realm of the spirit, without there being considered an undue amount of sentiment at variance with natural law?

Surely a domain which affects the lives and destinies of all, a realm which must hold in its divine possession all of the mysteries of being, is not one to be easily fathomed or understood in a moment. And if from out of the mysterious realm that is called death, the wonderful working pinions of life proceed, as from the past silence the incubation of years has yielded the harvest times on earth, so from the realm of the spirit, by such greater approaches of love and intelligence as the human conciousness can fathom, the powers of the spiritual realm are made manifest to your senses.

It is not the province of man to challenge the stars in their onward march, but to keep pace with them: it is not the province of man to stand by the gate-way of the sepulchre and challenge the silent yet palpable presence who comes from the invisible yet wonderful realm; but if such visitor approach clad in raiment that he can see, or reveals himself by a voice that he can hear, he should listen.

The ghost of Hamlet was not challenged after the manner of the modern investigator, but only that the intense and highly wrought mind of the son might hear the message that the father had to bring him, unraveling the mystery of the death of the king. So when you with the very questionings pi lo\r. perceive your loved ones - whether they come through the rapping or the sound of music, through the strings of a guitar or through the trumpet that enables them more effectually to voice the power, or whether through the handwriting or the voice of inspiration - it still is not important how they come, but what they bring. It is this great question of what they bring, that constitutes Spiritualism.

Phenomenalists may deal if they please in the methods or external manifestations of Spiritualism, and max , as some sensationalists do, occupy their entire time in witnessing different phases merely of phenomena.

But the true investigator is not only interested in the fact of spiritual manifestation but that which lies beyond it. Into the realm of the spirit you may only enter by spiritual pathways. It is not given for humanity to cross the border line by material processes. Spirits may come to you by material methods - the higher acting' upon the lower forces of nature- but you cannot climb into the spiritual world by and Jacob's ladder of material facts; you must, if you would understand the methods or the signs in the outer sphere of existence, place your spirits in conformity to spiritual laws. I will illustrate:

The astronomer does not mate his data from the earth as the centre of the solar system, although to all human senses the earth is the centre. The sun seems to rise and set, the stars seem to perform their revolutions around the earth; hut the true astronomer makes the centre of his solar calculations the sun. and finding a deviation in the great cycles of revolution, he has been obliged to make a more distant centre - a solar centre round which suns may revolve - to explain the precision of the equinoxes and the difference in the movements of the planets from cycle to cycle.

So if one Mould observe the causes of spiritual phenomena, he must do .so from the external form of nature, but he must place himself - being a spirit as well as body - in the spiritual center, from which he must perceive the powers that radiate inward the material, and by which processes alone he must understand the methods of spiritual manifestations.

Suppose some professor of electricity of modern times, could have lived two hundred years ago, and should have explained to a contemporaneous mind who had no knowledge of electricity, of its terms, of the processes of developing its presence or manifestations - if in mere language he should state how electricity exists and what its manifestations are, he would have been met, not only with incredulity, but the scepticism would amount to pity and contempt for the maniac who could treat of a subject that had no existence, and profess to give formulas of that which could by no possibility occur. But yet, to-day it is possible for you to become familiar with the formulated methods of detecting the presence of electricity, of evolving its vibrations in the human system and in the at-mosphere, and also of directing it to word messages that shall convey your intelligence, one to the other. So when a spirit discourses to you concerning the methods of spiritual life and requires that you shall be receptive and passive, it is simply that your minds may not meet in this added step of your spiritual unfoldment and inspiration, the usual scepticism and doubt, - a barrier that has met every stage of human science.

In the world of theology one denial has been brought to bear against the phenomena of Spiritualism. The only denial is in the source from whence the manifestations come. A a theology wishes to preserve itself intact as the only form of revelation, all classes of spiritual manifestions have been relegated to the domain of Satan, and therefore the ministrations admitted, but the source questioned. But to the philosopher, who has no more fear of Satan than of God, and is just as willing to explore Gehenna as the Holy of Holies if it could bring him any added knowledge, there is no terror in that word. He understands full well that if the spirits of evil are permitted to come to earth there must be a law by which the good ones also must come. He understands very well that there is no shadow in the universe excepting there be a corresponding light, and which is willing to go through the shadow if it is necessary. So that this fear has not retarded the investigation of the average scientific mind.