thoughts are not confined with the baries which of necessity confine, in a certain IDBLATTE, DET OVI, and prevent the true devement of the spiritualistic idea; and I thik, terel re, what we have brougis praezinently before us by the first minds of Amena tee great traits, we are likely to have many of our narrow opinions broken DL 156 m▼ Le impared to us. Therefore, for my part, I shall listen with great internet to Mr. Pertjes'

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Bev. M. D. Gawry being called upon, said Mr. Chairman, Ladies, and Gentlemen, — I have great sympathy with you in giving welcome to a genuine American thinker and laborer 11 good wris. Not being & Spiritualist, I have no claim upon the generosity with has invited me here except the great respect I have for truth. I am more friendly with Spuntualets than with spirits: and I acknowledge a large number of very dear friends in that body. There has not yet been a complete and thorough attempt to bring the scientific men of London to the point of testing the great and important claims of this movement. No one can travel through America or Russia, and mix in any company, but be will £nd a Spiritualist present,-persons perhaps of great intelligence and refinement, - barons and princes, and persons who have studied in all languages; and no individual can for a moment doubt their integrity. The subject has not been suficiently decided by men of science and culture, except such as were Spiritualists; and few are capable of strict scientific investigation. The most of people can only believe what they can bite: more, they can not understand. Of course I know what the Dialectical Society has been doing; but the public will have no more faith in them than they have in any of you, gentlemen: and, when they come out with their report, no one will respect it. The only thing in the world for the skeptic mind of this age will be when two or three well-known scientific men can report that they have seen the manifestations. As for Mr. Peebles, I have long known him as a liberal American and an earnest man; and I am obliged to those gentlemen who have so kindly enabled me to meet him.'"

Mr. Burns also addressed the meeting in a most felicitous manner, also C. W. Pearce, both alluding to the progressive library for the diffusion of Spiritual literature.

"Mr. Coleman then put the address to the meeting, which was carried with unanimity.

"Mr. Peebles then rose, and in an off-hand manner said,

"MR. PRESIDENT, LADIES, AND GENTLEMEN, - The privilege of meeting you upon the present occasion affords me intense pleasure. Personally strangers; yet for years I have known some of you,- —at least through your public lectures, authorship, and contributions to the English and American press: and I am exceedingly happy this evening in the privilege of clasping your warm hands, looking into your earnest faces, and coming into closer relationships with you socially and spiritually. Delegated by the "Universal Peace Society of America,” planting my feet upon your soil, I held in my earnest right hand the olive-branch of peace; and the other day, numbering one of that thirty or forty thousand assembled in the Crystal Palace, and seeing suspended over those eight thousand choralists the national flags of England, Ireland, Scotland, and America, responding seemingly in holy quietness to the melody of Oliver Wendell Holmes's peace-hymn, so touchingly rendered at the Peace Jubilee in Bostor, and

immortalized melodies from Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Rossini, and other masters, my soul throbbed in gladness: and for the moment I fancied myself in Syrian lands, listening to the echoing refrain, "Peace on earth, and good-will toward men.' Your own Lord Brougham said, “I abominate war, as unchristian. I hold it the greatest of human crimes." England and America, as elder and younger brother, united by the common sympathy of race, speaking one language, and connected by thousands of commercial interests, should never breathe the word war. All nations should settle their civil and international differences by arbitration and congresses of nations. The genius of the age calls for the practice of these divine peace-principles."

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"I am very happy this evening in seeing before me Mrs. George Thompson. I speak of George Thompson as an old friend, never forgetting the pleasant conversation we held together at the residence of J. C. Woodman, Esq., Portland, Me.: in fact, there is a common sympathy, which tends to make our philosophy, our science, our spiritual gospel of reform, in this age a practical one; and we should bring it down to every-day life, and live it, that others may see "our good works, and be led to glorify God." The principles of Spiritualism are marching on rapidly in America, and gaining attention in every circle of society. It has been estimated that there are eleven millions of Spiritualists in America: this, probably, includes those still in the churches, and whose religion simply recognizes the fact, that spirits can communicate. The lowest estimate, however, is four millions. We have a National Association, several State conventions, hundreds of organized societies and progressive lyceums, which that highlyillumined seer, Andrew Jackson Davis, first saw in the spirit-land. In these progressive lyceums, to the importance of which many of our American Spiritualists are not yet educated, our children are taught to develop their whole being, mentally, morally, physically, and spiritually. The great power of the sectarian churches consists in warping and training the young in their superstitions and dogmas; and the Roman Catholics know, that, if they can get the charge of the children for the first few years, they need have no fear of their becoming Protestants, -a hint which Spiritualists should turn to good account. If we would liberalize the race, we must educate the young; and this Spiritualists should accomplish through children's progressive lyceums, progressive libraries, new educational institutions, the support of our periodical literature, and the encouragement of mediums and speakers: and thus the work of progress would go forward on a broad liberal basis of sympathy and harmony, laboring to educate and spiritualize ourselves and our race.

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"The Rev. Mr. Bengough, M.A., of Christ's College, Cambridge, who has just taken his seat, deeply interested me, as did the subsequent stirring words of Rev. M. D. Conway, so well known in the Unitarian circles of America. His well-timed sentences reminded me of a half-day spent in the library of Emerson.

“'Whittier says, "The destroyer should be the builder too;" and Carlyle insists, that he who "goes forth with a torch for burning," should also carry a "hammer for building." Many have yet to learn the full import of the term toleration, the meaning of the word charity. Intellectually we may, we necessarily must, differ; but our hearts, all touched and tuned to the Christ principle of love, may beat as one. The angels do not ask, What do you believe? but, What do you do? what are you life-aims? what practical work have you wrought for humanity?'"'

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In London. Mr. Peebles had an opportunity to corroborate the affirmations of his ancient spirits respecting civilizations, recalling his conversation with → Aphelion," who lived 16,000 years ago." Calling on Dr. Birch, the Egyptologist of the British Museum, then reading hieroglyphs relating to the "Books of the Dead," he was informed, that, the farther we go back in Egyptian history, the higher is the culture and civilization."

CHAPTER XXVII.

"LA BELLE FRANCE."

"Star of the brave! thy ray is pale;

And darkness must again prevail!

But, oh, thou rainbow of the free!"-BYRON.

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LEAVING London about the 1st of October, Mr. Peebles crossed the English Channel, from Dover to Calais, in a steamer good as the best, which he styles" filthy, and positively detestable." The project of tunneling the channel he made a matter of scientific prayer. The French soldiery, the peasants in their harvests, the luxurious gardens, the entrance into Paris, "Queen of the Beautiful," assured him he was surely in a foreign land. "How unlike England!" he exclaimed. "There all is solid: here all is gay and volatile." During four weeks' residence in Paris, delighting his senses with the purity of its air and the floral exuberance of its fashionable streets, walking the Boulevards in meditation, he thus summed up the warning lesson of his prophecy in a letter to "The Universe," dated Oct. 6, 1869,

"Paris is France. Sundays are its gala-days. The citizens are proud of their fountains, gardens, beautiful Boulevards, and massive libraries, all open to the public. Under this display and grandeur, however, lies a maddened volcano. Its fire and flame already cause a half-subdued rumble. Gog and Magog are sharpening their weapons. That Napoleon's health is frail, none dispute. The sins of his youth are fruiting out into fearful pains and penalties. The grave invites his body to hasten: a rich worm-feast is promised. Then comes another revolution: mark the prophecy!"

Ere a year rolled by, what he prophetically foresaw is now fulfilling in the unparalleled war between France and Prussia, -Napoleor a prisoner, the empire broken, Paris in a siege, a republic organized; and struggling for life, and all Europe in a political ferment. What the augury? Ask the spirit oracles. "Poor France! weep for Paris! weep for the slain of thy sons and daughters! She will rise again rejuvenated!"