detailing Spiritualistic facts that have come under your observation, it will be a most acceptable thing; and I hope that February 21 will suit you. If not, the next meeting, a fortnight afterward.

"I expect a formal communication from the Secretary, which I will inclose; and will be happy to transmit your answer to him.

"Believe me,

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Faithfully and fraternally yours,

"W. STAINTON MOSES, M. A.

"J. M. PEEBLES, A. M., M. D.”

This letter shows upon its face that Stainton Moses (M. A., Oxon) was prompted to this act by the genuine personal regard he cherished toward Dr. Peebles, and it is evident that it afforded him great pleasure to provide for him this pleasant surprise. It is generally known among American readers that Stainton Moses stood high, both in England and in this country, for his sterling character and distinguished literary attainments. He was a graduate of Oxford University, and member of several scientific and literary societies in Great Britain. He espoused Spiritualism when it was very unpopular in England, and did, perhaps, more than any other Englishman to give the Spiritual movement a firm footing on English soil. He was a writing medium, author and editor of London Light. It was he who assumed the task of writing a thorough review of the more important among Dr. Peebles's published works for the British public. These appeared in the English Quarterly Review. Between Mr. Moses and Dr. Peebles there sprang up a warm and ardent friendship, which suffered no abatement down to the day of Mr. Moses' transition, which occurred but a few years since.

About twenty books and pamphlets have emanated from Dr. Peebles's fertile pen, most of which were published by that liberal and enterprising house, The Banner of Light Publishing Co., Boston. We will mention the more important here:"Seers of the Ages"-four hundred pages.

"Travels Around the World" about five hundred pages, "Immortality, or Our Homes and Employments Hereafter - three hundred and twenty pages.

"The Spiritual Harp," words and music, three hundred pages.

"Christ, the Corner Stone of Spiritualism;" lately revised and enlarged under the title, "Did Jesus Christ Exist?"

"How to Live a Century and Grow Old Gracefully." "A Critical Review of Dr. Kipp's Sermons Against Spiritualism."

"India and Her Magic."

"Who Are These Spiritualists?"

All except the first four in this list are pamphlets. They are written in a vigorous style and are pervaded with a peculiar electric fire, which characterizes all the writings of this industrious and versatile author. The three large works at the head of the above list have a permanent literary value, and will remain to future generations as standard works on the religious and philosophical aspects of Spiritualism, as also the psychological aspects of the various races of mankind.

During a large part of his public life, Dr. Peebles has been cditorially connected with prominent American journals, besides contributing lengthy articles from year to year to various papers and magazines, both in this country and Europe. At the present writing (1896) he edits the Temple of Health, in San Diego, contributes articles to various papers, gives an occasional discourse on Spiritualism, and conducts an extensive and constantly increasing medical practice.

XL

MEDICAL PRACTICE AND MEDICAL BATTLES

"God works with all who dare to win,

And the time has come to reveal it

The people's Advent's coming!"

With the advent of Modern Spiritualism there came to mankind divers gifts of the spirit,-"healing," "casting out. demons," "speaking with tongues," and various other departures from old-time customs. These seriously disturbed two of the great professions, medical and theological,— which uniformly sought to intrench themselves with special privileges behind restrictive acts of legislation. Similarly as the politician and banker seek to control the supply of money, so these gentlemen of the cloth and lancet seek to control the supply of physic and theology to the general people.

For the last twenty-five years Dr. Peebles and Hudson Tuttle have been foremost in the fight against this class legislation, and especially have they fought the doctors in their attempts to fence themselves in with restrictive legislative sures. Dr. Peebles was in a position to contest them on their own ground, since he armed himself with legal diplomas from the best medical institutions in the country, and in no instance have they been able to convict him as a "quack " practitioner.

The Doctor placed in our hands two legal documents: one a ruling by the Wayne County Court, of Pennsylvania, in June, 1891; the other, a decree of the District Court of Bexar County, Texas, rendered in June, 1894. In both instances he had been arrested for not complying with unconstitutional medical laws, and in each case he won the fight against the local doctors. We will let him give his own graphic version of the outcome of these legal battles. In a letter to Luther Colby,- July, 1894, - Dr. Peebles says:·

"FRIEND COLBY,- I am again victorious! But why do I say again? Because, when practicing in Wayne County, Pa., three of four years ago, without paying a license fee,' or going before the Board of Medical Examiners, I was arraigned and brought into court. The case was argued and decided in my favor, the county and county commissioners having to pay their own costs, while the license money that I paid them under 'protest' was refunded to me.

"And now again, on the 27th of last month, after three years of successful medical practice in this city, I was indicted (all unbeknown to me) by the grand jury, and arrested by the deputy-sheriff for what? Murder, robbery, arson, perjury, horse stealing? Nothing of the kind! But for the enormous offense of not having gone before the Medical Examining Board' of the city, paying them fifteen dollars, and getting a certificate. Immediately upon the arrest, I secured the best legal talent in the city, and coolly continued my practice.

"Yesterday my case was brought up, Judge Noonan, of the Thirty-seventh District, being upon the bench. The case, with the facts of legal diplomas, being duly presented by Lawyer Camp, the District-Attorney, the indictment was quashed, and the case promptly dismissed by the State. Here is the brief report of the affair in this morning's Daily Express: —

"In the Thirty-seventh District Court, yesterday, the case against Dr. J. M. Peebles, for practicing medicine without a certificate, was dismissed by the State.'

"This is the second time I've defied and beaten medical examining boards, defied and beaten the 'regular' doctors, defied their class legislation, defied their unconstitutional laws, laws enacted not for the protection of the people, but for the protection of blister-plastering, calomel-dosing, drug-poisoning doctors. How long will these bumptious 'regulars' plead the baby act? protect us,- oh, legislators, protect us!' Personally, I fear neither doctors, devils, nor pagan hells; and mark it, American, I will practice in any city I please, and in any one of the States I please. My original Scotch temper is thoroughly up!

"Every Spiritualist, every clairvoyant, every free-thinker, every American citizen valuing liberty should vote against any politician Republican, Democrat, or Populist - that toadies to the regulars,' or favors these medical boards and medical

trusts.

"As you well know, I am an old moral warrior, bearing on my breast the scars of many a hard-fought battle, gotten in the interests of Spiritualism, when it cost something to be a Spiritualist, gotten in the interests of anti-slavery, when it cost something to be an abolitionist,- gotten in the interests of woman's suffrage,— gotten in the interests of temperance and other reforms of this century. The doctors' battle is now on; and though in my seventy-third year (yet hale and healthy), I am in this fight against these infamous doctors' laws, and I intend to fight, and fight on, in this army militant, till death palsies hand and brain. Compare me not to the peaceful, loving John of the Gospels, as did my friend Hudson Tuttle, for I am war-panoplied, and with intellectual and spiritual weapons, I intend to fight these medical doctors' trusts; fight the devil, under whatever guise; fight for the right, fight for the truth, till truth and liberty in all their gorgeous glories reign triumphant. J. M. PEEBLES, M. D.

"San Antonio, Tex."

We have here in strong profile one of the leading characteristics of the man,- an indomitable firmness and persistence relating to all matters when personal rights are involved. While there is an entire absence of the aggressive spirit in his nature, when the rights of an individual, or class, or race are assailed, Dr. Peebles never hesitates to stand squarely up in a fight for their full vindication. In this way he has rendered valiant service for the protection and preservation of our common liberties. When dealing with bigots he becomes the soul of scorn and invective, logic and irony.

The Doctor's travels abroad and access to the hospitals of Europe and Asia, gave him that wide range of practical knowledge, which has distinguished his more recent medical prac