gh a very imperfect telephone.

One other incident of the early war days stands out in my memory. A
lady in whom I was interested had died in a provincial town. She was a
chronic invalid and morphia was found by her bedside. There was an
inquest with an open verdict. Eight days later I went to have a
sitting with Mr. Vout Peters. After giving me a good deal which was
vague and irrelevant, he suddenly said: "There is a lady here. She is
leaning upon an older woman. She keeps saying 'Morphia.' Three times
she has said it. Her mind was clouded. She did not mean it.
Morphia!" Those were almost his exact words. Telepathy was out of the
question, for I had entirely other thoughts in my mind at the time and
was expecting no such message.

Apart from personal experiences, this movement must gain great
additional solidity from the wonderful literature which has sprung up
around it during the last few years. If no other spiritual books were
in existence than five which have appeared in the last year or so--I
allude to Professor Lodge's Raymond, Arthur Hill's Psychical
Investigations, Professor Crawford's Reality of Psychical Phenomena,
Professor Barrett's Threshold of the Unseen, and Gerald Balfour's Ear
of Dionysius--those five alone would, in my opinion, be sufficient to
establish the facts for any reasonable enquirer.

Before going into this question of a new religious revelation, how it
is reached, and what it consists of, I would say a word upon one other
subject. There have always been two lines of attack by our opponents.
The one is that our facts are not true. This I have dealt with. The
other is that we are upon forbidden ground and should come off it and
leave it alone. As I started from a position of comparative
materialism, this objection has never had any meaning for me, but to
others I would submit one or two considerations. The chief is that God
has given us no power at all which is under no circumstances to be
used. The fact that we possess it is in itself proof that it is our
bounden duty to study and to develop it. It is true that this, like
every other power, may be abused if we lose our general sense of
proportion and of reason. But I repeat that its mere possession is a
strong reason why it is lawful and binding that it be used.

It must also be remembered that this cry of illicit knowledge, backed
by more or less appropriate texts, has been used against every advance
of human knowledg