especially as our chief corner stone is brotherhood universal brotherhood. During the coming Point Loma Congress, can not the three branches of this city so bridge the river and so cable the ocean of discontent and division as to come together' thus showing that our profession of brotherhood is not a mere name with which to conjure. J. M. PEEBLES, M. D." "We are standing on the border, We are waiting on the line, From the mind shall fade away." XLV TRIBUTES OF FRIENDSHIP "My soul was satisfied, I raised my eyes, "Above the mists and shadows of the night, "Thus, like the stars, our lives with light shall blend, While the preparation of this work has been in progress, we have from time to time received letters from Dr. Peebles's old and valued friends, in nearly all of which is contained appreciative testimonials of genuine friendship and esteem. We are also in possession of letters addressed to the Doctor, in which the writers turn to him as a sympathetic friend and wise counselor. From these personal tributes and voluntary expressions of personal regard we select a few and put them here on record. For many years the Hon. Y. Kilgore, of Philadelphia, an eminent attorney-at-law, and author was upon very intimate terms and an active co-worker with our brother, if we remember, from the beginning of the war to the date of Mr. Kilgore's transition. On Mr. Peebles's return from his second tour around the world in September, 1878, at a reception given our brother in Philadelphia, Mr. Kilgore spoke in part as follows: "Mr. President: An American citizen now traveling in foreign lands, receiving royal honors, will be given, on his return to this city, the greatest ovation ever received by an American. He has been a faithful servant of Mars and Mammon, successful as a general in war, and successful, also, in strengthening the money power. The honors already paid him and those which await him on his return, are the tribute the world now pays to its heroes of gunpowder and gold. But with no such welcome of heartless pomp and show do we greet our friend and brother, James M. Peebles. "The barbarism of war will sometime cease; the sounds of martial music will die away; the gilded trappings of courts will fade; earthly thrones will crumble and the purchased adoration of unthinking crowds will pass away, leaving no joy behind; but the approving voice of conscience; and the reward it brings, is in itself the highest honor, and will endure. forever. A stern fulfillment of duty builds the only monument that will survive the wreck of Time and rear its bold figure in eternity. Such reward and such honor are already yours, my brother, and such a monument you are now erecting. "You can say with Francis E. Abbott, 'Once I felt the full power of the Christian faith; now I cleave to a faith diviner still. It is INTELLECT, daring to think unawed by public opinion. It is CONSCIENCE daring to assert a higher law in face of a corrupted society and a conforming church. It is WILL, setting at naught the world's tyrannies and putting into action the private whispers of the still, small voice. It is HEART, resting in the universal and changeless law of eternal, transcendent LOVE. As an apostle of this faith, as an exponent of its intellect, conscience, will, and love, in behalf of all true Spiritualists I welcome you to Philadelphia. "Having known you intimately for many years, it gives me joy to say that, whether upon the broad prairies of the West, sowing seeds of truth received from the Immortals; on the beautiful banks of the Tennessee, guarded on either side by hostile armies, or on the battle-scarred steeps of Lookout Mountain, you have nobly urged upon your fellow men the claims of never-ending life, of temeprance, purity and peace. The same untarnished record comes from your tour in the far Northwest, when, as a companion to the Government Commission, you visited the hostile Indian tribes. Since then you have gone into every State of our Union, save Florida, as the messenger of unseen guides, and everywhere you successfully defended the great truths of Spiritualism against the combined attacks of ignorance, superstition, and bigotry. "But your spiritual pilgrimage has not been confined to the limits of your native land. It was your privilege to deliver the first regular course of Sunday lectures on the Spiritual Philosophy ever given in England, Australia, and Cape Town, South Africa. You gave the only lectures on this subject ever heard in Ceylon, India, or in Constantinople and Smyrna, in Asia Minor. As Consul of the United States to Trebizond, you acquitted yourself with honor. You have looked upon the ruins of the once-celebrated churches mentioned in the Apocalypse, at Ephesus and elsewhere. You have studied hieroglyphics, relics, monuments and tombs, the religion and government of the most ancient peoples in every grand division of the globe. You have seen more nations, races and tribes than any other American traveler, living or dead. You have stood upon the summit of Cheops - that miracle in stone and have heard, through the angels whispers of its builders, of its origin and purpose. It was your exalted privilege to traverse the mountains and valleys of the Holy Land with celestial guides to point out your way; to walk through Gethsemane attended by angel footsteps, and on Mount Zion to learn from the risen disciples of the Nazarene of the grand mission of the GREAT REFORMER. Nay, more, you have learned the one great lesson of human life -the only one that solves life's problem that the earthly mission of human souls is not simply to be happy, but rather a complete development of all that is within of the true, the beautiful and the good." Dr. J. A. Burroughs, Dr. Peebles's medical partner and business manager in their office at Indianapolis, was taken by the Doctor as we have elsewhere stated - from an orphan school in 1885. He has now been with his honored father and benefactor some thirteen years. Knowing that his acquaintance was familar and intimate, we wrote Dr. Burroughs, asking for a brief statement from his standpoint, of his estimate of Dr. Peebles, both as a public man and in the domestic relations of life. His answer was so hearty and spontaneous, we give it entire: "Prof. Edward Whipple, "Lakeside, California. "MY DEAR SIR AND FRIEND: Your letter dated August 26, was received in due time and deserved a much earlier answer, but I have had much on my mind, much to worry about and in consequence have not felt in a condition to answer a letter of so much importance as this until now, and it is with a great deal of hesitancy and a sense of weakness and inability to do the subject justice, that I approach it at this time. "I have been with Dr. J. M. Peebles since the early Spring of 1885; during this time we have been constant companions almost. Together we have been in the lecture field, in the practice of medicine, in-sanitarium work, together we have met the greatest of success and sometimes financial defeat and I have learned to love him and honor him as I have never loved and respected another. His friendship when once thoroughly enlisted is undying and unchanging and a friend never appeals to him in the hour of distress in vain. Other friends may come and go, when fortune smiles how near and dear they are, when adversity approaches, even though afar off, how quickly are they ready to declare they never knew you. I have ever felt and I feel to-day that his friendship has many times kept me from sinking, that it has guided me and strengthened me as nothing else ever has. man. "Dr. Peebles has the heart, the tenderness, the affection of a woman, the strength and courage and valor of the bravest With the Doctor I have visited nearly every state and territory and some of the foreign countries, accompanying him on one of his trips abroad. There is little doubt that with his matchless abilities he would readily excel in any walk in life that he should give his undivided attention to. As a |