more closely at this emotion it seems somewhat
selfish and cowardly. These creatures are in truth our own backward
brothers, bound for the same ultimate destination as ourselves, but
retarded by causes for which our earth conditions may have been partly
responsible. Our pity and sympathy should go out to them, and if they
do indeed manifest at a seance, the proper Christian attitude is, as it
seems to me, that we should reason with them and pray for them in order
to help them upon their difficult way. Those who have treated them in
this way have found a very marked difference in the subsequent
communications. In Admiral Usborne Moore's "Glimpses of the Next
State" there will be found some records of an American circle which
devoted itself entirely to missionary work of this sort. There is some
reason to believe that there are forms of imperfect development which
can be helped more by earthly than by purely spiritual influences, for
the reason, perhaps, that they are closer to the material.

In a recent case I was called in to endeavour to check a very noisy
entity which frequented an old house in which there were strong reasons
to believe that crime had been committed, and also that the criminal
was earth-bound. Names were given by the unhappy spirit which proved
to be correct, and a cupboard was described, which was duly found,
though it had never before been suspected. On getting into touch with
the spirit I endeavoured to reason with it and to explain how selfish
it was to cause misery to others in order to satisfy any feelings of
revenge which it might have carried over from earth life. We then
prayed for its welfare, exhorted it to rise higher, and received a very
solemn assurance, tilted out at the table, that it would mend its ways.
I have very gratifying reports that it has done so, and that all is now
quiet in the old house.

Let us now consider the life in the Beyond as it is shown to us by the
new revelation.

CHAPTER IV

THE COMING WORLD

We come first to the messages which tell us of the life beyond the
grave, sent by those who are actually living it. I have already
insisted upon the fact that they have three weighty claims to our
belief. The one is, that they are accompanied by "signs," in the
Biblical sense, in the shape of "miracles" or phenomena. The second
is, that in many cases they are accompanied by assertions about this
life of ours which prove to be correct, and which are