The New Republic Magazine from Topeka, Kansas • 24

CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALISM. able music serenaded the astonished sitters in the circles; flowers of a texture too delicate and spiritual to remain long in view before dissolving out of sight, were brought forth from the invisible gardens of God in profusion; those without any education suddenly became living libraries of wisdom. The gifts of the spirit mentioned by St. Paul developed rapidly. Pentacostal tongues are heard again upon the earth; men and women under the influence of the spirit as certainly forecast events as in the days of primitive spiritualism.

The true believers in Christ are on every hand, known by the "signs which follow them." They lay hands upon the sick and they recover, that is when the healer and his patient are adapted to each other. Jesus could heal those only to whom he was sent (adapted). See St. Luke, chapter iv, and verses 16 to 29 inclusive, where the peculiar workings and adaptations of spirit power are illustrated by Jesus himself as an apology for his failure to do there what he had done in Capernaum. The apparent dead are raised now as then; persons here and there, fall away into imperceptible life, as did Lazarus, and even for a longer time than he; but as Jesus remarked of Lazarus, This sickness is not unto death," but that no man can overt lirow it; that man iof a spiritual nature; he lives after so-called death and can and does manifest his presence and prove his identity to his friends as still living in the spirit world, which is a zone or sphere resting directly upon the earth and extending into infinite distance about us.

At first the spirits manifested their presence and power in a very crude, and sometimes even rude manner, doing superhuman things, such as crushing heavy oaken tables without human contact, and sometimes they even carried men and women about the room bodily along the ceiling. Scarcely anything can be thought of that the spirits did not do without the aid of human hands. These rude manifestations they performed, the spirits say, to catch the eye of the world, as Jesus did in Gallilee, when he killed the fig tree by the devitalizing force of spirit power concentrated upon it to convince the people that a power more than human was upon him. As the miracles of Jesus afterward became more gentle, refined and pathetic, so did the works of modern spirits. The most tender and loving messages began to be written by unseen hands.

Voices heard in the air, whole strains of delect.