"When seen that every atom, every pebble, every mineral, every vegetable, every animal, is insphered with its own aura, you may understand that there is a talismanic medium of invisible communication, detectible by sensitive persons. Your clothing is pervaded by your aural emanations. Consumptive persons weave sickness into their garments. Accordingly, the vestures of the sick, as well as old tattered garments, should be buried, or burned."

"Ancient spirits, when descending or approaching your earth, generally prefer not to give their names; they also dislike to have their earthly experiences referred to, for they live more in the present, and the unfolding future, than in the past. They prefer to be reticent. They love deeds rather than words. Whether ancient or modern, spirits differ in the power of vision much as we mortals do, the more exalted having the deeper powers of penetration."

"Spiritualism, in its best definition, is a phenomenon, a philosophy, and a religion; the latter its chief glory. It inspires during life to holy endeavor. It does not drape the mourner's home in gloom, but lifting the curtain of darkness, shows heart-stricken weepers those they love - ay, more: it brings their glorified forms into their very presence, permitting them to clasp their white hands, and listen to their tender musical words of undying affection."

One of our latest and most valuable books on mediumship is "Shadow Land" by Mme. E. d'Espérance, published in London. Here this wonderful psychic tells how faithfully she labored to obtain the truth through various phases of mediumship that came to her without seeking. Mme. d'Espérance placed her mediumship at the service of scientific critical observers of Germany, France, Sweden, England and other countries. Among these were Hon. Alexander A. Aksakof - a member of the privy counsel of the late Czar of Russia. "Shadow Land" has been translated into French, German, Swedish, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Magyar and Russian. She closes this volume with:

"Now my task is done. They who come after me may perchance suffer as I have suffered, through ignorance of God's laws. Yet the world is wiser than it was, and it may be that they who take up the work in the next generation will not have to fight, as I did, the narrow bigotry and harsh judgments of the 'unco' guid.' Still, I will not wish them too smooth a road, for it seems to me that, looking backward, I find the troubles that have attended my search - and they have been many - sink into insignificance. Nor do I regret them. They have been the monitors warning me that I had wandered from the right road, and though I knew it not at the time, were my best friends. Now at last I have found what I have been seeking through these long years; years of hard work interspersed with sunshine and storms, with pleasure and pain; now I can cry aloud in jubilant voice to all who will hear: 'I have found the truth' - and the same great prize may be yours, too, if you will seek it honestly, earnestly, humbly, diligently. This one atom of the living truth has brought me that Peace which passeth all understanding, and by its clear light I see and know that spirit communication is true."

Camille Flammarion, after relating a remarkable case of the successful attempt of one to appear before another by will and be seen when separated by many miles, says: "In the present condition of our knowledge it would be absolutely foolhardy to seek to explain; our philosophy is not yet far enough advanced. There are a great many things which we are forced to admit, without the power to explain them in any way. To deny what we cannot explain would be pure folly. Could any one explain the world's system a thousand years ago? Even now, can we explain attraction? But science moves, and its progress will be endless.

"Do we know the whole extent of the human faculties? The thinker cannot for a moment doubt that there may be forces in Nature still unknown to us - as, for example, electricity was less than a century ago - or that there may be other beings in the universe, endowed with other senses and faculties. But is terrestrial man entirely known to us? It does not seem so. There are facts whose reality we are forced to admit, with no power whatever to explain them."

Rev. H. W. Haweis, M. A., late Incumbent of St. James, Marylebone, London, author of "Music and Morals," "Thoughts for the Times," etc., in an address on ' ' Spiritualism and Christianity," delivered in St. James Hall, London, on April 20, 1900, boldly declared he was a Spiritualist, and that he was particularly in complete harmony with the proofs brought forward, that the status of the soul is not fixed by death, but that there "is unending progress." He closed his address with: "I say Spiritualism has finally taken away from us the capricious, fanciful, irrational kind of God who is supposed to judge his creatures in a way that would be a disgrace to a common magistrate, without intelligence, pity, sympathy or knowledge; such a God as had revolted so many sensible religious people, and Spiritualism has done away with him. Spiritualism has told us of this remedial world beyond. It points us to life, not death. Yes, it leads us to the center and source of life; it reveals to us the bright galaxy of ministering spirits, the Jacob's ladder, that reaches from earth to heaven, and upon which the angels of God are ascending and descending. Spiritualism has given us back our Bible, given us back our Christ, given us back our immortality, and given us back our God."

I have been liberal in making these quotations, and yet many others seem to crowd upon me for place in this paper. The work these scientists, these scholars, these psychics did to learn the truth brings unfoldment to all who travel over the same paths. From childhood, each new truth learned enlarges the intellectual vision and the possibilities of the individual. If the time has now come that one can step over the border line and commune with intellects that have been long in the spirit world, there progressing and adding to their knowledge, may not this prove to be the real source or fountain of supply to which man should learn to come? How often have we lifted ourselves up to it subconsciously! How often have we felt the blessing was sent from God! Sometimes we felt less bold and ascribed it to luck or coincident. When no explanation for an effect appears, man has been quite ready to account for it by naming it a strange coincident. In short, humanity seems to hesitate to say, "I confess, I do not know." Many things that occur seem so natural, in the trend of human events, that we accept them as matters of course; and yet, if asked to explain the cause of the effect, the average answer would be, "I do not know - it may be God."